Additive Manufacturing
JANUARY 16, 2023
Additive manufacturing software today does much more than support design and file prep for the process. Supporting workflows, quality management processes, and build simulations, the growth in the last five years has supported the acceleration of applications and enabling more production at scale. 2022 saw more integrations with other systems, features and cloud-based approaches.
Automation World
JANUARY 20, 2023
Manufacturing companies are increasingly using mobile robots in CNC operations to move raw materials from storage to machining, transfer cutting tools between a tool room and machines, and deliver semi-finished or finished parts to the next process phase.
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Design World
JANUARY 19, 2023
AutomationDirect has extended its line of WEG CFW500 high-performance AC drives to include more horsepower options. With this addition, the high-performance horsepower ratings have been expanded all the way up to 150 hp. Also added are new higher current high-performance 10 hp drives as well as 10 hp washdown rated IP66/NEMA 4X models. A full… The post AutomationDirect extends its line of high-performance and washdown-duty AC drives appeared first on Design World.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 19, 2023
When we think of customer service, what usually comes to mind are polite and helpful people. But what if technology could do that job? Welcome to the era of artificial intelligence and its impact on customer service. The progression of artificial intelligence offers the potential for major improvements in customer service for businesses worldwide.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
E&T
JANUARY 18, 2023
The full amount of warming caused by greenhouse gases has been hidden by microscopic airborne particles thrown into the air during desert dust storms, a new study suggests. Furthermore, research by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that the amount of desert dust has grown roughly 55 per cent since the mid-1800s, which increased the dust’s cooling effect.
Automation World
JANUARY 18, 2023
As industrial software moves from on-premises to the cloud, the purchase process, updates, data sharing, and application capabilities are all impacted.
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Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 14, 2023
The fast-paced technological advancements of recent years have enabled artificial intelligence (AI) to become an increasingly prominent part of our daily lives, transforming the way we communicate and consume media. AI software is now being implemented across a range of different industries, from retail to finance, enabling companies to streamline processes, boost efficiency, and remain […].
SMMT
JANUARY 17, 2023
Grey is UK’s most popular new car colour for fifth consecutive year with 25.7% market share, followed by black and white to complete a monochrome podium. Maroon, pink and cream were bottom of the charts, taking just 0.02% of all registrations combined. Green enjoys resurgence with biggest volume uplift of +13,293 units while electric vehicles account for a quarter of all new green cars.
The Fabricator
JANUARY 19, 2023
Metal artist Ivan Iler’s work has become more recognizable thanks in part to ambitious ideas—including a 25-ft.-tall brown trout—and participation in a Netflix reality competition. These opportunities have opened doors he’s long coveted.
Design World
JANUARY 17, 2023
The FAULHABER Drive Calculator is the perfect tool for developers to find a suitable drive system for a specific application in record time. It is easy to use and functional. The modern, clear user interface was designed with optimal usability in mind, and helpful tool tips provide valuable detailed information. For faster calculation, the program… The post FAULHABER Drive Calculator: A helpful tool for every developer appeared first on Design World.
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As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 16, 2023
DevOps play a crucial role in software testing in many industries. The same goes for the automotive sector. The DevOps pipeline holds remarkable similarities to how the automobile sector works. Workers neatly assemble different parts to construct an entire vehicle. To some extent, the automotive sector has already adopted lean principles. The automotive industry has […].
Plastics News
JANUARY 17, 2023
The plastics market forecast for 2023 is shaping up to be another interesting year. Economics Editor Bill Wood stops by this week's Material Insights to share what to expect this year as the U.S. plastics industry navigates higher interest rates, lowering demand and inflation.
E&T
JANUARY 18, 2023
How can I make a real impact and help to solve big problems? How can I help save the environment and make the world a better place? These are the questions I asked myself when I was considering future career paths. While I was really interested in sustainability and engineering, it was difficult for me to grasp how my skill set fitted into the sector.
Design World
JANUARY 17, 2023
By Eryn Devola — Vice President of Sustainability for Siemens Digital Industries Design has always been a balance of performance, cost, and quality. But these metrics do not take the full, lifetime environmental impact of a product into account. Sustainability must be added to ensure every impact of a product is addressed in even the… The post Siemens Digital Industries on sustainable product design appeared first on Design World.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 17, 2023
Lambert Vet Supply, a distributor of veterinary supplies in the US, has expanded its long-standing partnership with Körber by signing an agreement to deploy 24 autonomous mobile robots by Locus Robotics throughout its newly partnered warehouse network in Dothan, Alabama at Jeffers Pet Supply. The software-driven robotics solution seamlessly integrates with Lambert’s existing K.Motion Warehouse […].
Plastics News
JANUARY 19, 2023
Injection molder PM Plastics Inc. is investing $3 million to upgrade its plant in Orchard Park, N.Y., to shift its focus from basic contract manufacturing to making more precision products.
E&T
JANUARY 20, 2023
The second phase of the Red Diesel Replacement Competition will provide a £32.5m funding package to support innovative projects that are developing greener energy alternatives, the government has announced. The funding is expected to be focused on greener alternatives to red diesel such as electrification and green hydrogen, providing a pathway for industry to cut emissions and energy costs.
The Fabricator
JANUARY 18, 2023
A reader from the U.K. finds a discrepancy in how his press brake controller performs its bend calculations on certain sheet metal thickness.
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70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 17, 2023
Epson Robots, one of the largest robot manufacturers in the world, has signed Motion Ai, a supplier of automation products and motion control solutions, as an official distributor of Epson Robots automation solutions. Partnering with the industry’s leading manufacturers, Motion Ai is a one-stop-shop for automation products and custom solutions for businesses in several industries […].
Plastics News
JANUARY 19, 2023
The industry must work to credibly combat misinformation. That doesn't mean dismissing legitimate issues or automatically assuming that any criticism of plastics is wrong. But it does mean highlighting the benefits of plastics and working to make plastics safe and sustainable.
E&T
JANUARY 19, 2023
The Crown Estate has signed deals with four energy companies to build offshore wind farms that could help decarbonise the UK's energy grid. The proceeds from the wind farms - estimated to be around £1bn per year - will be used for the “wider public good”, rather than as a funding boost for the monarchy, the King has announced. The deals have been struck between the Crown Estate and companies including BP, Total and Germany’s RWE, and were greenlit by then-business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng in J
Plastics Today
JANUARY 18, 2023
Solar panel installations at two plants will cut CA-based Emerald Packaging’s emissions by the equivalent of more than 47 million pounds of coal burned over 25 years.
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 16, 2023
A team called PoliMOVE, from Politecnico di Milano in Italy, has won the second annual Indy Autonomous Challenge @ CES. The team’s car reached a maximum speed of 180 mph (290Km/h), a new autonomous speed world record for a racetrack. Pushing boundaries of head-to-head autonomous-racing, PoliMOVE competed at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway against a […].
Modern Machine Shop
JANUARY 19, 2023
Photo Credit: Getty Images Modern CNCs are much more forgiving than their early predecessors. In the old days, everything had to be just so. Before program formatting enhancements, programmed values required fixed formats (without decimal points), circular commands required cumbersome directional vectors (instead of simple radius specifications) and every command had to contain the same number of characters (before word address programming).
E&T
JANUARY 17, 2023
Electric car battery company Britishvolt has fallen into administration and made the majority of its 300 staff redundant, administrators have confirmed. The company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the batteries in Northumberland, has appointed administrators at EY after failing to raise enough cash for its research and the development of its Cambois site.
Canadian Manufacturing
JANUARY 20, 2023
SRP Canadian Winners (Photo: CNW Group/PepsiCo Foods Canada) MISSISSAUGA —Stacy’s Pita Chips inaugural Canadian Stacy’s Rise Project class is a grant and mentoring program for women entrepreneurs. For the first time, the Stacy’s Rise Project opened its applications to women founders based in Canada, expanding the impact of the program beyond the U.S. with the help of a new Canadian partner, Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada (WEOC). “Women-owned businesses i
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Next-gen manufacturers are redesigning factories to enable agility at every stage of production. From more timely communication between engineers and technicians to technologies that empower real-time collaboration, they’re getting ahead by making iterations and improvements during a build, across the production line at scale. This level of flexibility means they can develop more quickly than their legacy counterparts.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 17, 2023
The Numina Group has launched Pakt, which the company describes as “a fully productized pack and ship automation solution, purpose-built for fulfillment operations”. Pakt breaks down the financial and operational barriers to entry that have previously existed with end of line automation, reducing pack and ship labor by “70 percent and increasing throughput capacity by […].
The Fabricator
JANUARY 18, 2023
Service centers jumped into the metal fabricating space almost 20 years ago with the offer of laser cutting blanks to customer-specific sizes. These investors just wanted to offer basic cutting services and leave the complex work to the fab shops. Of course, times change, and so do business opportunities. As the industry in the U.S. has expanded over recent years, more are looking to grab a piece of the growing pie.
E&T
JANUARY 19, 2023
Ecologists have been collecting genetic material samples, called environmental DNA (eDNA), to catalogue and monitor biodiversity. Based on these DNA traces, they can determine which species are present in a certain area. While obtaining samples from water or soil is easy, other habitats such as the forest canopy are more difficult for researchers to access, which makes it harder to track the species that live there.
Manufacturer's Monthly
JANUARY 16, 2023
Recharge Industries will build a large-scale $300 million lithium-ion battery cell production facility in Geelong, which will generate up to 30 gigawatt hours (GWh) of storage capacity. The New York and Geelong-based startup, a Scale Facilitation® portfolio company, has announced it has engaged Accenture as its engineering provider to move forward on building what will be one of the world’s largest gigafactories.
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